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2D Art

Videos

Your assigned viewing will be selected from these files, which have been provided, courtesy of, TED Talks, PBS, Manufacturing Intellect, Film Courage, The Nerdwriter and many other wonderful contributors, for whose creativity and generosity I'm forever thankful.

Art & Society

• Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture, 2013
• Artconomy (Money & Art)
• Dada and Surrealism: Europe After the Rain Documentary, 1978
• Dada: The Original Art Rebels Documentary, 2016
• David Foster Wallace - The Problem with Irony
• Dread Scott: How Art Can Shape America's Conversation About Freedom
• How Art Can Transform the Internet
• Jack Conte: How Artists Can (Finally) Get Paid in the Digital Age
• Megan Wilkens: Economics and Art
• Robert Rauschenberg: Pop Art Pioneer Full BBC Documentary, 2016
• Surrealism The Big Ideas (Director's Cut)
• Thelma Golden: How Art Gives Shape to Cultural Change
• What Art tells us about Gender

Artists Talk About Being an Artist and Making Art

• 4 Time-Saving Tips (from a guy who spent 13 YEARS drawing a comic)
• 8 Artists: Advice to the Young
• 8 Artists on Painting, 2017
• A Writer's Time: Making The Time To Write - Dr. Ken Atchity [full interview about being an artist]
• Ai Wei Wei
• Antony Gormley: Sculpted Space, Within and Without
• Art & Design Festival: Christo
• Artist Chuck Close Writes Note to Younger Self (great advice for young artists!)
• Artists don't make any Money
• Chuck Close: A Portrait in Progress
• Chuck Close: Advice to Artists During a Crisis
• Chuck Close: Interview & Painting in Studio (1998)
• Danielle Feinberg: The Magic Ingredient that Brings Pixar Movies to Life
• Gerhard Richter in the Studio
• Jeff Koons and Heidi Zuckerman in Conversation About Leonardo Da Vinci
• JR, My Wish: Use Art to Turn the World Inside Out
• Julian Schnabel and Jeff Koons
• Make MONEY as an ARTIST in 2020!
• Marcel Duchamp Interview on Art and Dada, 1956
• Most Common Trait Successful Artists Share - Dar Dixon
• My Art Journey / How I Got a Job at Disney
• Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova and Marina Abramonic
• Robert Rauschenberg Interview, 1998
• What Successful Artists Do To Beat Self Doubt by Larry Hankin
• When is it Time to Quit a Day Job to be an Artist? - Rhomeyn Johnson

Creativity & Imagination

• A Writer's Time: Making The Time To Write - Dr. Ken Atchity [FULL INTERVIEW]
• Aparna Rao: Art that Craves Your Attention
• Creative writing lessons: Creative Writing tips, advice and lessons from bestseller Stephen King
• David Lynch on Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain (Transcendental Meditation)
• Dustin Yellin: A journey Through the Mind of an Artist
• Entering "the Zone" and Fear of Failure
• Genius or Madness? The Psychology of Creativity - Professor Glenn D. Wilson
• How To Be Creative: How an Artist Turns Pro
• How To Be Productive: Understanding Time, Work and Creativity - Dr. Ken Atchity
• How To Come Up With Good Ideas | Mark Rober | TEDxYouth@ColumbiaSC
• Janet Echelman: Taking Imagination Seriously
• Julie Burstein: 4 Lessons in Creativity
• Mural: Jackson Pollock
• The Creative Brain, 2019
• The Madness of Creativity - Charlie Kaufman On Facing Your True Self
• The Nature of Creativity and The Courage to Create
• Tim Brown: Tales of Creativity and Play
• What Holds Back Beginner Artists - Asking Pros

Design

• John Maeda: Designing for Simplicity
• Kelli Anderson: Design to Challenge Reality
• Paola Antonelli: Design and the Elastic Mind
• Paola Antonelli: Treat Design as Art
• Paula Scher: Great Design is Serious, Not Solemn
• Prometheus VFX Making
• Stefan Sagmeister: Happiness by Design
• Stefan Sagmeister: Things I've Learned in My Life so Far
• Tim Brown: Designers, Think Big!

Materials & Process, 2D

Beginner Figure Drawing (a lesson in 10 parts), courtesy of Love Life Drawing:

• 1: Overview of the Learning Process
• 2: Movement, Gesture and the Newspaper Exercise
• 3: How to Train Your Eye, Arm and Mind
• 4: How to Construct the Figure
• 5: Ribcage for Construction
• 6: Putting Together the Construction
• 7: Measurements for Proportions
• 8: Poses Viewed from the Side & Back
• 9: Outlines & Tones
• 10: Drawing Process Recap

• Disney Artist Follows a Bob Ross Tutorial (Photoshop)
• Formal Linear Perspective, an extensive multi-part lesson courtesy of The Drawing Database
• Kevin Beasley's Raw Materials | Art21 "New York Close Up"
• One Point Perspective, courtesy of The Virtual Instructor
• What I've Learnt About Shading from 10 Years of Drawing

Objects, Stories & Beauty

• 21st Century Guide to Not Just Telling Stories, but Building Super Stories - Houston Howard
• Adam Savage: My Obsession with Objects and the Stories They Tell
• Damien Hirst Relics Documentary
• Eva Zeisel: The Playful Search for Beauty
• How This Guy Makes Amazing Mechanical Mirrors | Obsessed | WIRED
• James Geary: Metaphorically Speaking
• Luke Syson: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love "Useless" Art
• Ole Scheeren: Why Great Architecture Should Tell a Story
• Richard Seymour: How Beauty Feels
• Stefan Sagmeister: 7 Rules for Making More Happiness
• Strandbeest Evolution 2017
• Top 10 Iconic Paintings
• Tracy Chevalier: Finding the Story Inside the Painting

Resouces

• 5 Public Speaking Tips in 5 Minutes
• CroquisCafé: Live Model Resource for Figure Drawing
• DO'S & DON'TS: How To Draw a Face | Realistic Drawing Tutorial Step by Step
• How to Hold and Control Your Pencil
• How to Shade a Drawing
• I Tested an Instagram Promo on My Art! Results
• Portfolio Advice for Artists - Draftsmen S1E09
• Structure Basics: Making Things Look 3D
• The Portfolio that Got Me Hired (First Animation Job)!
• Top 5 Shading Mistakes

Theory & Advice

• 5 Bad Artist Habits to Avoid
• 5 Ways People Take Advantage of Artists (and How to Avoid)
• 6 Ways People SCAM Artists
• A Beginner's Guide to Drawing
• Always be a Beginner
• Art is Pretentious* | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
• Art Rules You Should Be Breaking
• Art Scams | Artist Mistakes to Avoid
• Artists Don't Have To Believe In Themselves To Have Success - Brad Rushing
• Artists Have To Believe In Possibilities That Do Not Exist - Brad Rushing
• Becoming a full-time artist: advice I wish I'd never taken
• Being An Artist Is Lonely - Dr. Ken Atchity
• Biggest Difference Between Bad Art and Great Art by UCLA Professor Richard Walter
• Cosmic creativity -- how art evolves consciousness: Alex Grey at TEDxMaui 2013
• Christoph Niemann: You are Fluent in this Language (and Don't Even Know it)
• Critique - How the Heck Does it Work?
• Every Artist Has A Calling - Dr. Ken Atchity
• Excuses Lazy Artists Make
• Fears And Doubts That Hold Artists Back - Erica Wernick
• Hadi Eldebek: Why Must Artists be Poor?
• Hayley Levitt: Who Decides What Art Means?
• How Artists Get SCAMMED (And I Did, Too)
• How to Deal with Depression as an Artist
• How to Learn About Contemporary Art
• Is It Art? - A Look at Contemporary Art with Jeff Koons, 1993
• Jeff Koons: Beyond Heaven Documentary
• Jennifer Allison: Art and Awe as Healing
• My Experience with Anxiety
• No Time To Write Is A Tired Excuse by UCLA Professor Richard Walter
• Quit Your Day Job and Live Out Your Dreams by Dr. Ken Atchity
• Should You Be An Artist?
• SO, YOU WANT TO BE AN ARTIST? The Business of Being a Professional Artist
• The $150,000 Banana
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Artists
• The Art Career Choice Nobody Talks About
• The Death of Socrates: How To Read a Painting
• The Myth of the Tortured Artist
• The ONLY 6 reasons ANYONE would EVER care about your art
• The Rules of Abstraction with Matthew Collings, 2014
• The Truth of the Tortured Artist
• The Wealthy Artist: 6 Myths and 6 Tips on Marketing Your Art
• (This isn't ART?) Studying Art at University
• What All Artists Need to Know by UCLA Professor Richard Walter
• What Holds Back Beginner Artists - Asking Pros
• What is the Treachery of Images?
• What's The Point Of Being An Artist (Dedicated To Rodney Mullen)
• Why Artists Are Never Happy
• Why Artists Fail
• Why Most Artists FAIL
• Why Your Well Paid Job Could Be Ruining Your Life - Weekly Wisdom - Episode 7
• You Don't Need Great Skill to be a Great Artist: The Debate
• Young-ha Kim: Be an Artist, Right Now!
• Your Job is to Make Art: Seth Godin at Craft & Commerce, 2017

Video Series & Channels

• Rafi Was Here Studios (insightful advice from two talented young artists)
• The Art Assignment
• Art in the Twenty-First Century
• Behind the Artist Series
• e r g o j o s h
• Film Courage
• Kirsty Partridge Art
• The Nerdwriter
• This Is Modern Art, 1999 (a 6-part series with art critic, Matthew Collings on BBC, Channel 4)

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